Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beauty contest sponsored by a dressmaking company. In giddy succession, she had edged 19 other unusual wives out of the title of "Mrs. America," won a $2,500 prize and assorted "emoluments," and sat on a glittery throne. All she had to do in return was to travel around the country for five months modeling the dress company's products...
...recently settled pilots' strike (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), postponed all expansion plans, canceled orders for 25 planes. Pennsylvania-Central Airlines Corp. cut its staff some 15%, Western Air Lines, Inc. canceled half its orders for new planes, and Colonial Airlines, Inc. laid off employes. The reasons were plain: passenger travel had slumped, was not coming up to optimistic airline estimates...
Further opportunities in Austria include, according to Heller, several national full fellowships for American music students who wish to travel to the Salzburg festival in Austria next summer. These fellowships have been arranged after consultation with the Austrian Ministry of Education, he said. He added that he would be available in the Winthrop House Library to anyone wishing further information on the two possibilities...
...English; reverse side has the Chinese translation, Go Ho Ping, meaning Hope For Peace, which causes many high & low folk to remark: "Very nice name"); one pen, one pencil, one penknife, one passport, two car keys; one inoculation certificate showing 14 original shots plus regular boosters, minus which air travel is taboo; one Chinese Government certificate of registration as a correspondent; about 30,000 dollars Chinese, which is the equivalent of a double-size stuffed wallet and worth about $10 U.S. (when carrying more Chinese dollars I must bring an overnight bag or briefcase along); one piece of string...
Bill Murphy got his connections (plus ulcers) in the radio business, then in the Navy. Mrs. Murphy got hers as a travel expert, then as a professional gift-shopper, hostess, and party-arranger...